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Old Testament Toilet found - but you can't use it

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And Jehu wrote and sent letters to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, ... Now the king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who .... Then Jehu sent throughout all Israel; and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that ... To say he made it a refuse dump is literally that he made it a public toilet. 2 Kings 9:6-8 Israeli archaeologists have discovered a stone toilet while excavating a Jewish shrine at an ancient city gate, evidence that a biblical king tried to stamp out Baal worship there. King Hezekiah deliberately defiled the eighth century BC shrine at the door to the ancient city of Lachish, as part of a campaign to centralise Jewish faith in Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said. "A toilet was installed in the Baal temple as the ultimate desecration of that place," the IAA said in a statement. "A stone fashioned in the shape of a chair with a hole in its centre was found in the corner of the room."